Hanoi  - Vietnamese police plan to soon shut down a popular website run by a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur for violating rules on copyright and political content, a police official said Wednesday.

"The leaders of the company have admitted their wrongdoing," said Dinh Huu Tan, deputy head of the Hanoi Police Department for Ideological and Cultural Security.

The search portal, timnhanh. com, belongs to VON, a company owned by Paul Nguyen Hung.

Facebook, the social networking site, has recently added a FriendFeed-like feature in its news feeds.

It’s a button called “like”, which lets members to tell their pals what they think of a specific item in a stream of activities and a view of all others who have also liked it.

The members can apply “Like” labels to messages, pics, and other content.

Washington, February 10 : Rice University researchers have announced the creation of hybrid nano-cables, which may improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries.

Research leader Pulickel Ajayan has revealed that the idea is to grow nanotubes in such a manner that they look and act like the coaxial conducting lines used in cables.

The coax tubes consist of a manganese oxide shell and a highly conductive nanotube core.

"It''s a nice bit of nanoscale engineering," said Ajayan, Rice''s Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.

Due to many reasons, the XO laptop computers from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non-profit organization failed to turn really popular on the market.

However, the OLPC organization aspires to alter that by letting other contract manufacturers to build and ship XO machines.

The Phenom II lineup by AMD was updated by the company on Monday with latest quad-core and its first triple-core Phenom II processors, across the DDR-3 memory transition in the process.

Other than this, five new Phenom II processors, three of which are quad-core chips: the 2.5-GHz, Phenom II X4 805; the 2.6-GHz X4 810; and the 2.6-GHz X4 910, were also launched by AMD. The 2.6-GHz Phenom II X3 710 and the new 2.8-GHz X3 720 "Black Edition", included in others, are basically the maiden triple-core Phenom II microprocessors by AMD.  

San Francisco  - Amazon released a new version Monday of its highly successful electronic book reader Kindle, just days after Google said it would make available large parts of its vast catalogue of scanned books to smartphone users.

The new 359-dollar Amazon device will hold up to 1,500 books, boasts 25 per cent better battery life than its predecessor and includes a "talk to me" feature that reads books aloud.